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People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.
Gmail has always been pretty good at filtering junk mail into the “spam” folder. But today, in addition to spam, people get a lot of mail that isn't outright junk but isn't very important—bologna, or “bacn.” So we've evolved Gmail's filter to address this problem and extended it to not only classify outright spam, but also to help users separate this "bologna" from the important stuff. In a way, Priority Inbox is like your personal assistant, helping you focus on the messages that matter without requiring you to set up complex rules.
Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:
As messages come in, Gmail automatically flags some of them as important. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most (if you email Bob a lot, a message from Bob is probably important) and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). And as you use Gmail, it will get better at categorizing messages for you. You can help it get better by clicking the
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buttons at the top of the inbox to correctly mark a conversation as important or not important. (You can even set up filters to always mark certain things important or unimportant, or rearrange and customize the three inbox sections.)After lots of internal testing here at Google, as well as with Gmail and Google Apps users at home and at work, we’re ready for more people to try it out. Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so. Once you see the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner of your Gmail account (or the new Priority Inbox tab in Gmail Settings), take a look.
▼This has been going on longer than Obama has been in office. Has its Constitutionality ever been challenged? If not, why not? "US funds restoration of global Islamic sites," from AP, August 24 (thanks...Expand this post »
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▼This guy again. He can sure spin a yarn, too, as shown below, but his novel would lack continuity. "Yemen: Al-Qaeda no.2 urges '9/11' style Jihad against Israel," from AdnKronos International, August...Expand this post »
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The United States’ National Geospatial-Intellige
A “sole-source” provider means that the NGA believes that Google is the only qualified provider and is the only company that can bid on the project. The announcement was made yesterday and competitors have until August 24 to voice their objections to this decision.
The NGA’s Geospatial Visualization Enterprises Services contract is for a, “secured, hosted environment that provides web-based access to geospatial visualization services and Open Geospatial Consortium complaint web service interfaces.”
The NGA said in a statement that:
“Google is the only source that can meet the Government’s requirement for worldwide access, unlimited processing, and Open Geospatial Consortium complaint web service interfaces.”
The contract is for at least one year with two option years after that (it’s unclear from the announcement which side would trigger the option).
So what is the NGA? According to Wikipedia:
“The National Geospatial-Intellige
nce Agency (NGA) is an agency of the United States Government with the primary mission of collection, analysis, and distribution of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security… and is part of the Department of Defense. In addition, NGA is a key component of the United States Intelligence Community.”
NextGov reached out to Microsoft to see what they thought of all of this, reporting that, “Microsoft spokesman Keith Hodson said the company’s Bing Maps Server can meet the NGA’s requirements.”
An academic geospatial expert that we contacted, who wished to not be named, told us that, “Google Earth sells a massive enterprise infrastructure product. Though Bing has commercial licenses, I’m not sure about their standalone (where the client runs their own secure server clones) enterprise infrastructure.” As evidence, our source pointed us to Google’s and Bing Map’s enterprise mapping pages, which shows that Google has at least put a lot more into how they are showcasing their standalone enterprise infrastructure.
This comes about ten days after GeoEye and DigitalGlobe were awarded multi-billion dollar contracts with the NGA to provide satellite im
We’ve contacted Google PR and an additional expert for comment and will update if/when we get responses.
Original title and link for this post: US spy mapping agency: Only Google can meet our needs for a new project
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▼Hate getting shots at the doctor? Take heart: scientists are working on microscopic needles that don’t hurt. First up, vaccines: Microneedle patches are about the size of a postage stamp and hold hundreds of miniscule needles, each less than a millimeter long. They feel "like 400-grit, fine sandpaper," says Pete Daddona, chief scientific officer at Zosano Pharma Inc., in Fremont, Ca., which is...Expand this post »
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There’s not many people who claim to love computer viruses, except for the people who make money from them. If you’re not among that small group of people you presumably hate the things.
I recently shared the 10 best free antivirus programs, and these tools are all worth checking out. Some scan constantly to protect, while others are great failsafes for when something slips through the cracks. Sometimes, however, none of these programs will work, because Windows simply won’t start or the virus is blocking the installation of other anti-virus programs (even in safe mode!)
In situations like these you need an antivirus that runs on an operating system other than your default.
You could attempt to get your antivirus program of choice running from a self-built Windows live CD, but if you’re looking for something a little simpler I highly recommend the BitDefender Rescue CD.
Getting Started
This little-advertised free product can scan your unbootable or corrupt Windows setup safely from a Linux Live CD.
Don’t panic! You don’t need to know anything about Linux to use this disk. All you need to know how to do is burn an ISO and boot from it.
To start go ahead and download the ISO file from BitDefender’s semi-secret system rescue CD site. Now you need to burn it. You can probably use whatever CD burning application your computer has, but if you need a simple free one for Windows I recommend one of these free alternatives to Nero, any of which can burn ISO images.
Finally, you need to boot from your CD. How to do this varies from computer to computer, but typically you need to press a certain button as the computer’s manufacturer displays on the screen. On a Dell, for example, one usually presses F12 to bring up the boot menu. Select your CD drive to boot from and the Bitdefender Rescue CD should start.
Scan Of Hard Drive
Make sure your computer has access to the Internet before you start your scan, so BitDefender can update. Plugging your computer directly to the Internet is your best bet, but you might be able to get the Wireless working by using the networking icon on the bottom panel.
It really doesn’t get more complicated than that. Bitdefender will start and will scan everything on your system, removing any malware that might be making your system unwieldy.
Once the scan is done BitDefender will remove the infections and hopefully leave you with a completely clean computer.
Other Tools
A number of other useful tools are included on the BitDefender Rescue CD, including:
- Gparted.
- Th
unar File Browser. - Firefox (browse while you scan!).
- Foxit Reader for Linux.
- Terminal, with access to entire Ubuntu repositories via apt-get.
Licensing
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Conclusion
There you have it: a tool that can remove viruses from systems that seemingly can’t run any antivirus applications. Be sure to install proper protection after you clean everything out!
Does this seem useful to you in a jam? Do you have any stories about this tool, or one like it, working? Or do you have any similar tools to recommend? Commenting is awesome, and can even make you awesome, so you should do so.
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▼By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com A new threat could be crawling across the nation, clad in diapers: Terror babies. Seriously? Well, yes seriously if you ask some Texas Republican members of Congress who cite former FBI agents, according to Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 show on CNN. Nonsense, if you ask a former high ranking FBI official, who appeared on the show. The Texas lawmakers say ...Expand this post »
▼Tolerance. Bridge-building. Peace. Sharif El-Gamal is the multimillionaire who owns the 45 Park Place property where the mega-mosque is slated to go -- and he believes that "when you beat someone up physically you get exercise & stress relief." Reza's article opposing the mosque was posted here. "Muslim opponent of mosque reports threat," by Brian Lilley for CNews, August 18 (thanks to Geoff): ...Expand this post »
▼She doesn't seem to care about where the $100 million to build the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero is coming from, despite the fact that the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has lied about...Expand this post »
▼Back on December 8, 2009, the New York Times ran a puff piece on the proposed Ground Zero mosque at the site of a building hit in the World Trade Center attacks. In that piece the following quote...Expand this post »
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▼Back in December of 2009 General Hammond of Fort Carson Colorado, had stated that Islam is a beautiful religion. The General has obviously done little research on Islam, so tonight I sent the following email to the Commanding General Hotline at Fort Carson. If I hear anything back, I will let you guys know. Hello, In the past General Hammond stated that Islam is a beautiful religion. But the t...Expand this post »
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▼This weeks A Taste of Utica recipe is posted by Chris. Not a BLT Sandwich but a BLT SALAD. I’ve listed the original ingredients however, I didn’t use real bacon. I used Soy Bacon. Still…this recipe is a winner. - 3/4 cup mayonnaise - 4, 1 inch thick slices of Italian Bread - 12 slices of thick – cut bacon, chopped - 3 TBS red wine vinegar - 4 cups cherry tomatoes, halved - 1 (10 oz ) bag ...Expand this post »
